About

My IT journey began in my teenage years with the uCoz website builder — I created a music discussion forum where people could share their favorite tracks and playlists. But back then, it was nothing serious. I played around with it and forgot about it soon after. At that time, I didn’t even realize that all those manipulations were powered by real programming code underneath.

After school, I graduated from a technical institute with a major in computer networks and worked for several years as a system administrator at an airport. I was responsible for keeping the infrastructure stable, monitoring systems, and analyzing passenger traffic with SQL queries — that experience taught me to think in terms of data and solve practical problems. At the same time, I earned a part-time degree in “Information Systems and Technologies” from Tambov State Technical University to strengthen my foundation.

I’ve always been drawn to beautiful websites — the urge to create visually appealing and, most importantly, high-quality products kept growing stronger. I dove deep into self-learning, moving from simple vanilla JS scripts to complex full-stack applications built with React and Next.js. My first major project was an online store for my father’s business, which I built entirely from scratch: database schema, authentication, endpoints, user dashboard, and admin panel — it was incredibly fun to bring it all together. That’s when I truly immersed myself in development.

The highlight of my journey came with an “aha” moment — while solving an animation challenge for a personal project, I suddenly realized I could build not just websites, but living, engaging interfaces. That’s what I do to this day — and I’m not planning to stop anytime soon. Recently, I’ve also started focusing more on the art of web animation as part of my main skillset.